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Positive and psycho-pathological aspects between shame and shamelessness

Interpersonal relationships represent an essential aspect of mental wellbeing and social functioning. If all the symptoms contain a relational meaning, shame represents the relational affect par excellence both in terms of its origin and its purpose. This paper aims to highlight the role of shame as...

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Autores principales: Saya, Anna, Di Ciaccia, Gregorio, Niolu, Cinzia, Siracusano, Alberto, Melis, Marianna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992428
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.941576
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author Saya, Anna
Di Ciaccia, Gregorio
Niolu, Cinzia
Siracusano, Alberto
Melis, Marianna
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description Interpersonal relationships represent an essential aspect of mental wellbeing and social functioning. If all the symptoms contain a relational meaning, shame represents the relational affect par excellence both in terms of its origin and its purpose. This paper aims to highlight the role of shame as an affect inherent in the rhythmic nature of the encounter with the other, as well as the pathological elements of this aspect in both its conscious and unconscious dimensions. There is a heterogeneous quantitative and qualitative declination of shame, or of the defenses against this affect, among the various pathologies. We consider the fundamental needs of belonging and acceptance and the parallel abandonment anguish from various psychoanalytic and philosophical theoretical perspectives and then analyze the link between their dissatisfaction and the origin of shame. We also touch on the different interpretaions of shame based on eastern and western cultural norms. These hypotheses are closely intertwined with the beliefs of classical psychopathology. The role of the body in the encounter with the other and in the experience of shame is also examined. In particular, we study the role of this affect in schizophrenia, depression, eating disorders, and personality disorders.
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spelling pubmed-93822852022-08-18 Positive and psycho-pathological aspects between shame and shamelessness Saya, Anna Di Ciaccia, Gregorio Niolu, Cinzia Siracusano, Alberto Melis, Marianna Front Psychol Psychology Interpersonal relationships represent an essential aspect of mental wellbeing and social functioning. If all the symptoms contain a relational meaning, shame represents the relational affect par excellence both in terms of its origin and its purpose. This paper aims to highlight the role of shame as an affect inherent in the rhythmic nature of the encounter with the other, as well as the pathological elements of this aspect in both its conscious and unconscious dimensions. There is a heterogeneous quantitative and qualitative declination of shame, or of the defenses against this affect, among the various pathologies. We consider the fundamental needs of belonging and acceptance and the parallel abandonment anguish from various psychoanalytic and philosophical theoretical perspectives and then analyze the link between their dissatisfaction and the origin of shame. We also touch on the different interpretaions of shame based on eastern and western cultural norms. These hypotheses are closely intertwined with the beliefs of classical psychopathology. The role of the body in the encounter with the other and in the experience of shame is also examined. In particular, we study the role of this affect in schizophrenia, depression, eating disorders, and personality disorders. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9382285/ /pubmed/35992428 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.941576 Text en Copyright © 2022 Saya, Di Ciaccia, Niolu, Siracusano and Melis. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short Positive and psycho-pathological aspects between shame and shamelessness
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9382285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992428
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.941576
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